{"id":56998,"date":"2012-10-19T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=56998"},"modified":"2012-10-24T01:02:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T01:02:32","slug":"uk-chief-whip-resigns-following-allegations-he-called-police-plebs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/uk-chief-whip-resigns-following-allegations-he-called-police-plebs\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Chief Whip Resigns Following Allegations He Called Police &#8216;Plebs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Cameron has been delivered a humiliating blow, with a broken\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Andrew Mitchell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/andrew-mitchell\">Andrew Mitchell<\/a>\u00a0quitting as chief whip, abandoning a month-long fight to save his career and fend off claims that he had referred to a\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Police\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/police\">police<\/a>\u00a0officer as a &#8220;pleb&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell&#8217;s decision \u2013 relayed to the prime minister personally in a meeting at Chequers after Cameron returned from an EU summit in Brussels \u2013 is a huge blow to the prime minister, who had stood by him in the face of an onslaught by the opposition and the Police Federation and growing doubts among his own backbenchers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2012\/oct\/19\/andrew-mitchell-resigns-police-pleb\">Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":56999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402,1,2375],"tags":[5698,5699,5697],"class_list":["post-56998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-stories","tag-andrew-mitchell-referred-to-a-police-officer-as-a-pleb","tag-andrew-mitchell-resigns","tag-chief-whip-resigns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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